Pretty much everything Sarah makes is functional. It gives her great pleasure when customers express their delight in regularly using her work. Objects include: toastracks, eggcups lemon squeezers, cutlery drainers and ceramic spoons.
The ceramics Sarah makes are always useful and she produces in small batches of no more than 8 items. This keeps the ideas fresh and the work individual.
Sarah’s really into slipware. (her Mum’s collection of motto ware comes to mind) She uses terracotta clay because it has a deep, rich depth of colour and is a dream to throw with. It feels like melting chocolate through her fingertips. The potter’s wheel allows fluidity, a quality she loves in ceramics.
Slabbing and modelling are also an integral part of her making process. She uses very soft clay, squeezing and joining everything together with fingerprints, while it’s still lovely and soft.
Sarah is very interested in surfaces. When she brushes white slip over terracotta it has a deep earthy quality. she works quickly on the surface, scratching into it (sgraffito) with random scribbles and doodles. It’s an instinctive and intuitive process. She does not deliberate or labour over the surfaces and likes to mess them up a little with random splats of coloured slip or underglaze.
The human element is key for Sarah, layering up surfaces, rather like a painter at a canvas…. mark making and doodling.
She finishes off her pieces with a clear lead-free earthenware glaze. This makes them smooth to touch and also durable for everyday use.
Sarah’s current making obsession is with soap dishes of all shapes and sizes. She decided to get rid of plastic bottles in her own bathroom and designed some soap dishes for her shampoo and conditioner bars as she had nothing to put them on. Sarah’s ditched the use of plastic hand soap dispensers at the Pottery too, opting instead for bars on hand made dishes and soap pillows.
Work can be purchased from the studio shop at Eastnor Pottery. Due to social distancing, customers can only visit the shop by appointment. Please contact the Pottery on 01531 633886 or email admin@eastnorpottery.co.uk to arrange a visit. Alternatively, visit Sarah’s online shop.
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